Thursday, June 25, 2015

EVG correspondent Steven notes that the sign's up for the new food place at 36 St. Mark's Place ... and as you can see, Belgian fries will be the speciality of the house here between Second Avenue and Third Avenue.

Perhaps this will make up for the loss of Pommes Frites, whose home of 18 years was destroyed in the deadly Second Avenue gas explosion this past March 26. (The Pommes Frites owners will reopen near Washington Square Park after finding a bigger space with lower rents on MacDougal Street.)

Any info. on the "war" on rats in Tompkins? Any progress on the pilot study in the EV area? Just wondering what new innovation is expected for TS after the infilling with wood chips which was cosmetic and done little good as the burrows have reappeared.

Hope they change their oil more frequently than Pomme Frites. Last time we went there, both my son and were puking our guts up an hour later. Thought they smelled a little funny, and I should've trusted my nose...

So it's a 2 Bros production huh. I wonder if they were, as I read in the comments here, also behind the Cheep's Falafel, and the cut-rate fro-yo. The 2 bros need a TV show or something. They have got to be real pieces of work. Their stuff is not for me, but they have quite the empire in the works. There is no limit to what they could sell in their inimitable cut-rate style.

These are the 2 bro rip off group who owe their employees 10 million dollars in over time. They are rightfully getting their pants sued off. The chutzpah to open a new business when their employees need to be paid. May the true fate come to those who don't pay,

DT...it is St. Marks Place, not St. Marks Street. You would probably be correct in saying E.8th Street as well, but nobody would know what you are talking about.

As for Pommes Frites that got destroyed in the fire...well it was tragic. The loss of lives was shocking. The loss of viable businesses was bad. The loss of residential units was devastating.

But the loss of the garbage that Pomme Frites created on the block is no loss at all. They never their sidewalk cleaned. Customers would drop paper plates, fries holder wrappers, cups, plastic utensils, countless drops of various sauces, and anything else they were holding all over the sidewalks. It was a disgusting mess and they never cared. They relied upon the corner garbage cans to hold the garbage instead of having their own large container by the curb or storefront. At night they wrapped their garbage up poorly and placed it at the curbside for pick up creating a rat infested feeding grounds. Good riddance to great fries.

These Two Brother shysters are too much, they will do anything to try to make a buck, including not paying their employees a fair wage and ripping off the concept of a restaurant which was hit by a travesty. It’s unfortunate for the Ease Village, but this shop has little chance of succeeding because they don’t have their hearts in it. Pommes Frites was in the neighborhood for something like 17 or 18 years, they made an excellent product and their employees stayed with them for years.

Best we can hope for is that the real Pommes Frites is wildly successful in their new location over on Macdougal Street, and they consider setting up shop again in the East Village. Until then, Pommes Frites will be missed, trash and all.

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